i really don’t want a superpower or a cheat code. i just want to do a good job.

somebody needed to put the ass in assassin.

what if they — Vance and his shadowy backers — arranged the whole thing?

we all have a second amendment right to our sandwiches now.

which 2020s new tech will be remembered as more transformative, GPT or GLP?

the Constitution doesn’t explicitly bar a deep fake from exercising Article II powers.

“centrists, the largest component of the British politico-media class, aren't actually liberals, neither in the broader sense of defenders of civil liberties against authoritarianism, nor in the narrower sense of advocates of free markets (their's is a capitalism of managed mkts + corporate graft).”

sometimes i think i have mitochondria hypochondria.

you worry that you’re self absorbed, but it really is all about you.

they're working on it…

it turns out some people are unimpeachable whom i’d never have thought to apply that adjective to before.

i agree! www.interfluidity.com/v2/5117.html

futures but boy does it hurt that twice absurd is still absurd.

your last home is one you never live in.

colononauts. where no man has gone before. www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

when you put the benefit in number of people terms, sure, it seems like very few, very little. but if you put it in dollar terms, willingness to pay, surplus, it might be pretty gigantic!

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sometimes i think AI should stand for “automated imagination”.

just nuking the archives of this one is a huge loss. economistsview.typepad.com

I'm on things much more handmade. My early blog provider went under (a small indie, he was great about helping us migrate). Since then (15+ years I think) I've been first on a self-hosted wordpress, now mostly on generated static sites.